How Leaders Invest Staffing Resources for Learning Improvement

Analyzes staffing challenges that guide school leaders' resource decisions in the context of a learning improvement agenda, staff resource investment strategies that improve learning outcomes equitably, and ways to win support for differential investment

Effects of Postsecondary Grant Aid Programs: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

This systematic review and meta-analysis identifies effects of student grant aid on college enrollment, credit accumulation, persistence, academic achievement, degree completion, and post-college labor market outcomes. Using systematic search procedures, we identified 86 studies, estimating 709 effect sizes, published from 2002-2020 that met our inclusion criteria. We organize the 62 grant aid programs examined in these studies into seven categories. Using meta-analysis procedures, we find statistically significant, positive effects of grants on college enrollment, credit accumulation, persistence, and completion, but not post-college labor market outcomes or college academic achievement. Effects of aid varied by aid program type and program characteristics. An evidence gap map illustrates the distribution of average effect sizes for different categories of grant aid and eligibility requirements

Effects of Postsecondary Grant Aid Programs: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

This systematic review and meta-analysis identifies effects of student grant aid on college enrollment, credit accumulation, persistence, academic achievement, degree completion, and post-college labor market outcomes. Using systematic search procedures, we identified 86 studies, estimating 709 effect sizes, published from 2002-2020 that met our inclusion criteria. We organize the 62 grant aid programs examined in these studies into seven categories. Using meta-analysis procedures, we find statistically significant, positive effects of grants on college enrollment, credit accumulation, persistence, and completion, but not post-college labor market outcomes or college academic achievement. Effects of aid varied by aid program type and program characteristics. An evidence gap map illustrates the distribution of average effect sizes for different categories of grant aid and eligibility requirements